13 February 2019

29 JUN 18: CCLA & NCCM SUCCESSFULLY OBTAIN RENEWED STAY AGAINST QUEBEC’S BILL 62

https://ccla.org/ccla-nccm-successfully-obtain-renewed-stay-quebecs-bill-62/

(Ottawa – June 29, 2018) The Canadian Civil Liberties Association (CCLA) and the National Council of Canadian Muslims (NCCM), two prominent civil liberties & advocacy organizations, have successfully obtained a further stay of section 10 of Quebec’s religious neutrality law, commonly known as Bill 62.
Last December, the Quebec Superior Court granted the CCLA and NCCM an interim stay until July 1, 2018, pending the Quebec government’s release of official guidelines governing how the restriction on face coverings when giving or receiving public services would work in practice, including the process for granting exemptions for religious reasons.
Following the release of the official guidelines in May, the CCLA and NCCM returned to court last week to argue that the guidelines were inadequate for preventing serious and irreparable harm to Muslim women who choose to veil their faces on the basis of their sincerely-held religious beliefs.

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